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Opal Brown speaks on her time in Eastern Montana during the Great Depression. She remembers the difficulties of not being able to afford any luxuries, and just barely scraping by on her family’s small income. She recalls her pet sheep, Bootsy, which she had to get rid of not long after taking him in. Brown speaks about President Franklin Roosevelt and the relative prosperity he brought to Montana during the Depression, supplying jobs for people who had been out of work for years.

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Montana Communities Oral History Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula

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University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library

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Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu